Example sentences for: prominence

How can you use “prominence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In London, the Financial Times gave much greater prominence to the U.S. offer of a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Osama bin Laden.

  • The surprise success of the far-right German People's Union in Sunday's election in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt made most European front pages Monday but received less prominence in the German press.

  • Luoyang is sometimes known as the Capital for Nine Dynasties, reflecting a political and cultural prominence that originated nearly 4,000 years ago.

  • Meanwhile, Madrid enjoyed brief prominence in 1308 when king Ferdinand IV and his Cortes, an early version of parliament, held a formal meeting in the fledgling town.

  • Product as a generic mercantile term for "marketable commodity" has been around for years, but it seems to have first acquired prominence as jargon--and specifically as a term with a somewhat off-putting aroma--in the recording industry during the 1960s.


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